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Saturday, 14 November 2015

Pepe Escobar on the Paris attacks: Who profits?

There's no evidence this is a false flag - at least for now. What this seems to be proving is that Daesh is a certified pro ops with badass connections.

Scouring a ton of reports, I found a Danish citizen describing one of the attackers to a Paris café; ultra-pro, black-clad head to toe, AK-47, very well trained.
These are not your usual al-Zawahiri underwear bombers; these are
precision killers. This one left the scene undisturbed, and contrary to
French police, may not have been captured. He wore no suicide vest.

French intel swears they are monitoring at least 200 nationals who came
back from "Syraq". Talk about a lousy job. Paris is hyper-policed. The
mind boggles thinking of at least 8 jihadis promenading at will on a
Friday night dressed as pro killers.

For me, this is also personal. Jihad came to my hood in Paris. I left
Paris last week on my usual commute back to Asia. I have always mocked
Fox News describing my hood as a "no-go" area - obviously for the
wrong/stupid reasons.

They picked a small Cambodian restaurant, cheap and cozy, where the
habitués are young and relatively hip. This means the quartier may have
been carefully researched for months.
They picked a mix of heavily symbolic venues.

You have a France-German match witnessed by the President in a
stadium where all barriers - ethnic, religious - dissolve, a true symbol of multiculturalism.

You have a gig by an American band in a concert hall filled with young people.

This points to a calibrated conceptual spectrum - carefully mapped out by French insiders; perhaps those "Syraq" returnees.

This also points to a monumental fail by French intel and the Ministry of Interior.

There are so many accumulated reasons for blowback; overt and covert
discrimination against Muslims, leading them to feel like second-hand
citizens; France's coddling of "moderate rebels"; Sarko The First and
General Hollande's wars on Libya and Mali; the meek bombing raids in
Syria; France as NATO enforcers.

Timing: crucial. Just as the US/Brits announce they "may" have evaporated with Jihad John. And a few hours before the Vienna talks are supposed to come up with an official Top Ten terrorist list in Syria (the subject of my current article on Asia Times.)

Information Clearing House

Alison Weir / If Americans Knew...

The Corbett Report

Centre for Research on Globalisation

Signs of the Times

Photojournalism:

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The inability to grasp the pathology of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults. We have been blinded to the depravity of our ruling elite by the relentless propaganda of public relations firms that work on behalf of corporations and the rich.

We need to remember that, psychopaths and other personality disordered individuals really have no choice but to be what they are; they are like forces of nature. But normal human beings DO have a choice as to whether they will accept abuse or not. By accepting abuse, they give power to the psychopaths to abuse others so it is not just a matter of self-preservation; it is a matter of making sure that our children have a future. It seems that, in a world where the people cannot or will not, rise up against psychopathy in power, the Cosmos will do it for them, and take them out as well for their silence and their weakness. The bottom line is, nobody and no event is going to “save” anyone. It is only human beings, individually and collectively, who have the power to BE salvation.” – Laura Knight-Jadczyk

Plans for control of the evil forces that have been loosed in the world, attempts to compensate the evil- doing by good works or sympathy for the victims, efforts to safeguard the peace or to effect ideal solutions of all the material problems involved, can do little to change the nature of the situation. The real problem, namely, the question of what can be done for civilization in face of the nonhuman forces arising from the collective unconscious in thousands or rather millions of individual persons, will remain untouched. However, if only one human being has met and solved the problem in himself, he will be a living demonstration of a solution. Such an individual carries with him the germ of a renaissance of the spiritual values of mankind.

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